Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-15
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


Jackson 5 gas well is down 2,4O0 feet.
No new developments.
Mayor Hayden, of jackson, presented
each member Of the police force with fat
turkey.
The Van Buren, County Teachers As
sociati0n will meet at Hartford, Dec. 0
and 10.
-Menominee reporters are brilliant, one
of them who wears $1,000 diamond pin
being unusually so.
The convicts of the Jackson Prison
disposed Of six hundred pounds OF chicken
on Thanksgiving Day.
"A bed Of fire-clay, fifteen feet thick
and only three feet from the surface, was
recently found on the farm of H. A. Hay
den, of Spring Arbor.
planter bniIdinS e'i at Adrian. recently, and
before the fremen had finished D.e inside
was pretty badly demoralized. The loss is
.ot less than $4,000.
Louis White, a convict received al
Jackson Prison, Sept. ~, 1856, on three
years sentence from Menominee County
for burglary, has been taken to the Insane
Asylum at Ionia. White is violently in
eane.
e. +. Smith & Co., stone contractors,
of Jonosville, are laying in large supp,J
Ct >ione to fill next seasons CONTRACTS.
F.om twenty to forty teams lave been at
work for the past few weeks, and from 100
D SUI loads have been drown in every
day.
The nine members of the Salvation
irmy, of Jackson, who were arrested f0
disturbing the peace, were tried recently.
The men were fined So each, and the
women were discharged under suspended
sentence. Ihe case was appealed to the
Circuit
The annual meeting of the MicH gan
Saorthorn Cattle Breeders Association will
be held at Lansing, December Al Tha
change is made to give the members of the
Sheep Breeders Association. which holds
its meeting on the Goth, opportunity To at
The Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick
Company, of Menominee, now has about
100000 900 feet of old logs in the boom and
scattered along the river, and will bank
probably 35. 600, 900 feet during the winter,
having 200 men in the woods, while there
vi be 500 when the season is further ad-
anced.
Work on the Manistee River drive is
finished for this season, and the men paid
off. I'll sack" is at the "old house" near
we'll flied with logs; reasonable estimate
puts the number at about 6O,0O0,OOO feet.
Work at the sorting gap will be continued
as long as the weather permits.
The annual election of officers of La
fayette Lodge No. 16 f. and A. NJ, of
Jonesville, has been held, and the follow
ing officers chosen: w. NJ, G. o. Bur-
nett; S. W., C. p. McEnally; J. W., G. E.
Case; Treasurer, Geo. ID. Harding; Secre-
tary, c. II. Levens; S. d., JAS. Sackett; J.
D., L. N. Roberts; Tyler, John Webster;
Representative TO Grand Lodge, @. II.
Levens.
The President and Secretary of the
Southeastern Michigan G.. A. r. Associa-
lion have issued call for a meeting of the
Executive Committee, 10 be held in Adrian
on Friday, Dec. 80, 1887, at 1 p. m, for
the purpose of locating the place and fixing
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compliment, and transacting such other
business as may properly come before the
committee.
Hon. John G.. Owen has purchased
what is known as the Thomas mill, at
Chase, and the Pelton mill, near Nirvana.
The machinery will be removed to Brook
field Township, Huron County, and used
in the erection of new mill. ID. X. Al
lington, mechanical engineer, is now ire
pairing the design. 1t will have a capacity
of 5O,0OO feet daily. Mr.. Owen has about
60, 900 feet of timber TO manufacture on
lands owned by him in that vicinity.
John w. Brooks, Manager OF the De-
troit Corset Company, and very recently
occupying similar position in Chicago,
started for New York lately from Detroit.
In clearing out his valise, preparatory to
packing it, he threw on the floor some poi
sonous pills taken by him while suffering
recently from neuralgia. After Mr.. Brooks
left his rooms at the Antisdel House his
18-months- old child found and ate the
pills and died the next day.
A Woman's Relief Corps has been or
ganized in Jonesville by Mrs. Plummer,
President Of the Relief Corps Of Michigan.
The organization is to be called Henry
Baxter Corps No. 127, and the following
officers have been elected and installed:
President, Hrs. Addie Earl; Senior Vice
President, Mrs. Lillian Wade; Junior Vice
President, Mrs. Libbie Spencer; Secre-
tary, Miss r. b. Seeds; Treasurer, Mrs. G.
P. McEnally; Chaplain. Mrs. Oliver Merrill;
| Conductor, Mrs. Go. Askew; Assistant
Conductor, Mrs. Mary Macomber; Guard.
Mrs. Martha a. Barber; Assistant Guard,
Mrs. Ellen Bliss.
The Circuit Court at Adrian is occu-
pied with an appeal suit wherein Hamilton
College is a party. A Tecumseh man,
among other bequests, left 81, 900 to found
scholarship or chair in the college, and
the heirs contest the bequest on the ground